Holding Difference: Building Our Robust Debate Muscle

Holding Difference: Building Our Robust Debate Muscle

Building our robust debate muscle is something I find most leadership teams, and people, including me, could do with a few workouts focusing on. In some teams, the muscle is barely lifted, with many unsaid ideas and perspectives, and high levels of artificial harmony...
Holding Difference: Building Our Robust Debate Muscle

Adults Behaving Badly – and Those Who Nourish

  When my dad passed away a few weeks ago, a knock came at my front door. The daughter of my 96-year-old neighbour was holding a bowl of what looked like cereal in her hands. I couldn’t imagine how nourishing I would find it. How wrong I was. My neighbour Sotiria...
Holding Difference: Building Our Robust Debate Muscle

How Do You Show Up To Professional Learning?

I had a group of leaders at the recent Ferocious Warmth Women in Education Leaders Day as what I call the top-shelf learning level – as co-creators.  Through storytelling, curiosity, sharing, partner coaching and the wisdom of their lived experience, this group...